Do you need a keyboard to get these things setup? I tried (I think) Retroperitoneal (haha, gboard autocorrect) a while ago and just plugged my 360 controller into it, which worked fine for the main menu. I think the actual emulators needed some setting up to use the controller and I gave up.
Yeah, there's a bit of tweaking to do to get the controllers setup, each emulator within retropie can be configured seperately for the control setup, as can each game if you want to go down to that level.
A USB keyboard is needed for the initial setup - network settings, path to ROMS (if hosted on an external source) etc. Once that's done though you can do everything with the controller.
Cool, thanks. I have a mini Bluetooth keyboard which I didn't have before so I'm gonna give it another go. And if it works well maybe look at some retro controllers.
Hah, yeah - my brother and I had an atari2600 with the mono button joystick while others had NESs with their 4 button witchcraft. We were very jealous.
Flashback. Good call. I always think of that as an Amiga game though. Trying to think of some I used to like (probably mostly Amiga games). Putty, Pang, Superfrog, Supercars, Wizball.
Obviously Sonic 2.
Donkey Kong Country, F-Zero (won't be good on the 360 pad - last time I tried, whenever I went over a jump I ended up off the side).
Gotta be Amiga for the music. But lots of people prefer the Megadrive for the controls. Definitely not the FMV intro of some versions (Sega CD and PC I believe).
I haven't tried much on it yet. Putty and Rainbow Islands worked fine. I tried Pang and The Chaos Engine but they both had a guru error. Think I need to play with the ROM/memory/CPU settings. A mouse and keyboard (my mini Bluetooth keyboard has a built in track pad) is very useful for it.